Look out, Facebook users: Here comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as ...

M won’t be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger. Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK that allows them to build interactive experiences and “bots” in ...

From weather to shopping, the chat bot experience is only just beginning. — -- Get ready to make friends with chat bots on Facebook. The first few chat bots have settled into Facebook Messenger ...

Using Facebook Connect and an open standard for IM, the social network is letting others tap into its chat service. AOL is one of them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

SAN FRANCISCO — You already chat with friends on Facebook Messenger. Now Messenger wants you to chat with businesses and get updates from them, too. That's the future Facebook pitched Tuesday at f8, ...

Facebook stores all messages sent and received in Facebook Chat even after you close the chat window to end a conversation with a friend, business contact or colleague. The social network groups the ...

Facebook will roll out the video chat service to more than 750 million people in over 70 languages over the next few weeks. "This is the natural evolution of tying together the communication ...

Facebook has built a new feature codenamed “Host Chat” that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I’ve contacted ...

At a Facebook press event on Tuesday announcing changes to the social network, chief Mark Zuckerberg slipped in an interesting fact about Facebook's built-in chat client. "I'm pretty sure [it's] the ...

If you're short on time and want to log on to your Facebook account to briefly check messages or post a quick status update, turn off the chat feature. This lets other users know you're not available ...